Ball.



UNITED STATES SPECIFICATION formingpar of Application filed March-19,

To a/ZZ whom Be it known resident of Cleve Patented June 16, 1903.

BALL.

Letters Patent No. 730,959, dated June 190s. seriiuNo. 148.590. (no modem concern,.-

that l, K nNYoN V. PAINTER, a

hoga and State of Ohio,

new

clear, and exact de such as will enable whichit appertains M invention relates and useful Improv land, in the county of Cuyaha veiuven ted certain ements in Balls; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full,` scription of the invention, others skilled in the art to to make and usethe same. with the hard elastic casing or cover 3 directly in the to an improvement in balia, and more particularly to golf-balls and the like,

the object of the invention being to provide a ball in which tubular rubber is einployed either as a' binder or core to pro'vide ments under an infinite number of air cells or compartlligh compression to impart with this object in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction 2 tions and arrangements of parts,

as will be more fully hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in section, Fig. 2 is a rubber employed;

i ments.

and

views of modiiications. v

a solid core of gutta-percha,

1 represents celluloid, metal, paper, or zo closed in a cove' porous rubber when the term illustrating my improvedetail view of the tubular Figs. 3, 4,- and are other material inring2 of porous rubber, and

is-ei'nployed it is to be understood that it is intended as a term broad enough to cover any form of'rubber or composition thereof in which air cells or compartments are provided either by the nature of the rubber or by its sembling. Aroun ber 3, such as Fig. 2, is' wound under high.tension.

3 may comprise tubular longitudinally rubber ofcylindrical o'r other shape, or prise a at strip of ru to form a d covering manner of as- 2 tubular rubillustrated in the detail View,

- The function of this t 5 only to hold the porous rubber under compression,

chambers or compart great compression to a of the ball. 5o ber binder 3 isincl ing or cover 4,

.driving-power able material,

of hard under, g

osed in a This a closed tube it might com-A bber folded or curved tubular-construction. ubular rubber is not but it also provides innumerable air ments, which are under dd to the elasticity and The tubular rubhard elastic casrubber er othersuitreat tension, and the and combina' casing or cover 4 is inclosed in au outer shell or cover 5 of guita-percha, celluloid,paper, or other suit-able material.

In Fig. 3 l have illustrated my' improvements with a hollow spherical core y(i of elastic or inelastic materialsuch as rubber, cellui loid, paper, gutta-percha, metal, or other ma 4 and incluse the tubular binder outer shell or cover 5.

In4 Fig. 4 I dispense altogether with an inner core and wind under high tension the tubular rubber 3 around the central filling of vsecure'the outer shell or cover'directly around the tubular binderB.

ln Fig. 5 I illustrate a. ball in which the tubular rubber 3 is wound upon itself under high tension and the cover thereon, dispensing with all parts save the tubular rubber and the outer shell or cover.

Other changes ,might be made Without departing from my invention, and hence I do not confine myself to the precise details set forth, but considerniyself at liberty `such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention. Having fully described my invention, "fhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. yA ball composed in part of rubber tub-4 ing .1 wel?,

2. A\ball, lcomposed of tubular rubber wound under high ten-sion, aud an outer cover or shell inclosing the same.

3. A ball, comprising a center of porous rubber,'tub ular rubber wound under high tension thereon 4to compress the porous rubber, and an outer shell or cover on lsaid tubular rubber.

4i. A ball, comprising a central core, tubular rubber woundthereon under high tension, and an outer shell or cover inclosing the same.

5. A ball, com prsinga central core, porous rubber inclosing the same, tubular rubber wound around the porous rubber under high tension to compress the porous rubber` and an outer shell or cover inclosing the tubular rubber binder.

6.- A ball, comprising a central core, porous rubber iuclosing the same, tubular rubber wound around the porous rubber under high te'rial-and in this construction I dispense to make- 5 secured directly tension to compress theporousrubber, ahard ber binder, and au outer shell or cover of .elastic cover or casing around bhe tubular gutta-percha.

rubber undergreattension, and an outershell In testimony whereof I -have signed this or covering around the casing, specification in the prcsenceof twosubscrib- 5 7. A ball, comprisingacentral solid coreof ing witnesses.

gatta-perciba, porous rubber inc losing-thev f same, tubular rubber Wound under high tension around the porous. rubber to hold theY Witnesfses: A porous rubberundercompression,ahard-ruby S. W. FOSTER,

l ber casing or cover inclosing the tubular rub- A. W. BRIGHT.

KEYON v. PAI NTER. 

